Berkshire CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Hounslow Inverness Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Plymouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	127
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	25	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	4.826 %	4.584 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£291
Average daily rate	£306	£314
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.84	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Application Platforms Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	518	589
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.665 %	0.662 %
Daily rates quoted	133	110
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£309
Average daily rate	£389	£335
% change on same period last year	+16.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.08	£21.12
Average hourly rate	£34.71	£22.14
% change on same period last year	+56.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.33	£23.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
CMS South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Berkshire region.

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Berkshire region.

CMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

CMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Reading	-5	17	£306	+0.74 %
2	Slough	+2	2	-	-

CMS South East

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS.

1 34 (59.65 %) Content Management 2 29 (50.88 %) HTML 3 27 (47.37 %) XML 4 15 (26.32 %) CSS 4 15 (26.32 %) XHTML 4 15 (26.32 %) MySQL 5 12 (21.05 %) JavaScript 5 12 (21.05 %) Linux 6 11 (19.30 %) PHP 6 11 (19.30 %) .NET 6 11 (19.30 %) PHP5 6 11 (19.30 %) LAMP 7 10 (17.54 %) SQL Server 7 10 (17.54 %) C# 7 10 (17.54 %) XSLT

7 10 (17.54 %) Red Hat 8 9 (15.79 %) Drupal 8 9 (15.79 %) Education 9 8 (14.04 %) Subversion 9 8 (14.04 %) Intranet 9 8 (14.04 %) Python 10 7 (12.28 %) Publishing 10 7 (12.28 %) Agile Software Development 11 6 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 11 6 (10.53 %) Migration 11 6 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 11 6 (10.53 %) Microsoft 12 5 (8.772 %) MS Visio 12 5 (8.772 %) Apache 13 4 (7.018 %) Tomcat

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 29 (50.88 %) HTML 2 27 (47.37 %) XML 3 15 (26.32 %) CSS 3 15 (26.32 %) XHTML 4 11 (19.30 %) LAMP 4 11 (19.30 %) .NET 5 10 (17.54 %) XSLT 6 9 (15.79 %) Drupal 7 6 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (5.263 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 2 (3.509 %) WPF 9 2 (3.509 %) WinForms 9 2 (3.509 %) AJAX 9 2 (3.509 %) WAP 9 2 (3.509 %) ASP 9 2 (3.509 %) WML 10 1 (1.754 %) WebServices 10 1 (1.754 %) Hibernate 10 1 (1.754 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.772 %) Apache 2 4 (7.018 %) Tomcat 2 4 (7.018 %) SharePoint 3 3 (5.263 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (1.754 %) Joomla! 4 1 (1.754 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.754 %) Mambo 4 1 (1.754 %) Documentum 4 1 (1.754 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (8.772 %) MS Visio 2 4 (7.018 %) Photoshop 3 2 (3.509 %) Fireworks 3 2 (3.509 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 8 (14.04 %) Intranet 2 2 (3.509 %) Internet 2 2 (3.509 %) Extranet 3 1 (1.754 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (26.32 %) MySQL 2 10 (17.54 %) SQL Server 3 6 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (5.263 %) SQL Server 7 4 3 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 8 (14.04 %) Subversion 2 3 (5.263 %) Dreamweaver 3 2 (3.509 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (3.509 %) Flash 4 1 (1.754 %) FrontPage 4 1 (1.754 %) StarTeam
General 1 9 (15.79 %) Education 2 7 (12.28 %) Publishing 3 4 (7.018 %) Government 4 2 (3.509 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.754 %) Construction 5 1 (1.754 %) Games	Job Titles 1 22 (38.60 %) Developer 2 11 (19.30 %) Web Editor 3 10 (17.54 %) Content Editor 4 8 (14.04 %) Web Developer 4 8 (14.04 %) .NET Developer 5 6 (10.53 %) Web Content Editor 6 5 (8.772 %) Architect 7 4 (7.018 %) C# Developer 7 4 (7.018 %) Administrator 8 3 (5.263 %) Web Designer 8 3 (5.263 %) Information Architect 8 3 (5.263 %) Project Manager 8 3 (5.263 %) Analyst 9 2 (3.509 %) Systems Administrator 9 2 (3.509 %) Solutions Architect 9 2 (3.509 %) Business Analyst 9 2 (3.509 %) Junior 9 2 (3.509 %) MySQL Developer 9 2 (3.509 %) Junior Web Designer 9 2 (3.509 %) ASP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.263 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (3.509 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.754 %) Replication 3 1 (1.754 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 12 (21.05 %) Linux 2 4 (7.018 %) Windows 3 1 (1.754 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (59.65 %) Content Management 2 7 (12.28 %) Agile Software Development 3 6 (10.53 %) Migration 4 4 (7.018 %) Project Management 5 2 (3.509 %) Web Design 6 1 (1.754 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (1.754 %) Web Development 6 1 (1.754 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (1.754 %) MVC 6 1 (1.754 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (1.754 %) UML 6 1 (1.754 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (1.754 %) B2B 6 1 (1.754 %) B2C 6 1 (1.754 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (21.05 %) JavaScript 2 11 (19.30 %) PHP 2 11 (19.30 %) PHP5 3 10 (17.54 %) C# 4 8 (14.04 %) Python 5 3 (5.263 %) SQL 6 2 (3.509 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.754 %) Shell Script 7 1 (1.754 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.754 %) Java 7 1 (1.754 %) PHP4 7 1 (1.754 %) C
Vendors 1 10 (17.54 %) Red Hat 2 6 (10.53 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.509 %) Adobe 3 2 (3.509 %) RedDot 4 1 (1.754 %) Serena 4 1 (1.754 %) SAP 4 1 (1.754 %) IBM 4 1 (1.754 %) CA 4 1 (1.754 %) Borland